#64 EasyABC Won't Play Grace Notes Correctly Between Dotted Notes

[Dave Moulton]

I have a case where I have double grace notes in a tune. If the double grace notes occur before a note they display, transcribe and play correctly. e.g. {dc}B

However, if the notes fall in between dotted notes, EasyABC displays, and transcribes them correctly, but ignores them completely in playback. e.g. C>{DE}F, C<{DE}F

Is there some extra coding I need to know to get playback to work correctly, or is this just broken in EasyABC?

Thx for your help.

[seymour shlien]

This is more of a limitation of abc2midi. EasyABC calls an external executable abc2midi to convert the abc file into a temporary midi file which is then played. You may have better luck expressing C>F as C3/2 F/2 and then inserting your grace notes as C3/2{DE}F/2. abc2midi has been evolving in the past few years and you can get the latest versions from sourceforge.net in the abcmidi project. Also there is a newer version abc2midiu in development on sourceforge.net. By going to the Settings/ABC settings you can link EasyABC to the latest version of the external executables.

[Dave Moulton]

Okay, understood. Will these updates to abc2midi be included in future
updates to EasyABC?

Thx

On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM seymour shlien sshlien@users.sourceforge.net wrote:

This is more of a limitation of abc2midi. EasyABC calls an external
executable abc2midi to convert the abc file into a temporary midi file
which is then played. You may have better luck expressing C>F as C3/2 F/2
and then inserting your grace notes as C3/2{DE}F/2. abc2midi has been
evolving in the past few years and you can get the latest versions from
sourceforge.net in the abcmidi project. Also there is a newer version
abc2midiu in development on sourceforge.net. By going to the Settings/ABC
settings you can link EasyABC to the latest version of the external
executables.

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[tickets:#64] https://sourceforge.net/p/easyabc/tickets/64/ EasyABC
Won't Play Grace Notes Correctly Between Dotted Notes

Status: open
Milestone: 1.3.8
Created: Mon Feb 17, 2025 02:26 PM UTC by Dave Moulton
Last Updated: Mon Feb 17, 2025 02:26 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

I have a case where I have double grace notes in a tune. If the double
grace notes occur before a note they display, transcribe and play
correctly. e.g. {dc}B

However, if the notes fall in between dotted notes, EasyABC displays, and
transcribes them correctly, but ignores them completely in playback. e.g.
C>{DE}F, C<{DE}F

Is there some extra coding I need to know to get playback to work
correctly, or is this just broken in EasyABC?

Thx for your help.

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